Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Prologue: A Chicana Lesbian Scholar's Tale
• Introduction: History
• 1. Chicana Lesbian Fictions
• 2. The Mystery of the Weeping Woman
• 3. Black Velvet Fantasies: "The" Aztec Princess in the Chicana/o Sexual Imagination
• 4. Sor Juana and the Search for (Queer) Cultural Heroes
• 5. Memories of Girlhood: Chicana Lesbian Fictions
• 6. Shameless Histories: Talking Race/Talking Sex
• 7. Queer for the Revolution: The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation
• 8. Conclusion: With Her Machete in Her Hand
• Appendix: Toward a Chronological Bibliography of Chicana Lesbian Fictions, 1971-2002
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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The first history of Chicana lesbian writing from the 1970s until today.

About the Author

Catrióna Rueda Esquibel is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.

Reviews

"I am wildly ecstatic about this project and thoroughly grateful for Esquibel's interventions in the cause of Chicana lesbian authors ... now extending into this cutting-edge and highly readable critical text." Alicia Gaspar de Alba, UCLA, author of Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition